Re: [RFC PATCH] Sector 2 of non-embedded core.img: write early or patch later?

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 05:24:59PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> We have a serious problem with installing onto partitions (e.g.
> grub-install /dev/sda1) and drives with geometry that doesn't leave
> enough space for core.img to be embedded before the first partition.
> While it's not a desirable configuration, it should work, but it
> doesn't.

Do we really want to support this?  I don't think there's any reliable way
to tell where filesystem metadata starts.  So unless we're talking about a
dedicated partition, this sounds like a no-go.

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Robert Millan

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